[Secure-testing-commits] [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add clarifying note for CVE-2018-9251

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Salvatore Bonaccorso pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / security-tracker


Commits:
e6de419a by Salvatore Bonaccorso at 2018-04-04T16:03:31+02:00
Add clarifying note for CVE-2018-9251

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1 changed file:

- data/CVE/list


Changes:

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data/CVE/list
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@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ CVE-2018-9252 (JasPer 2.0.14 allows denial of service via a reachable assertion 
 CVE-2018-9251 (The xz_decomp function in xzlib.c in libxml2 2.9.8, if --with-lzma is ...)
 	- libxml2 <unfixed>
 	NOTE: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794914
+	NOTE: Before upstream commit https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bb
+	NOTE: the memlimit argument to lzma_auto_decoder was set to UINT64_MAX, possibly
+	NOTE: allowing a malicious LZMA compressed files to consume large amounts of memory
+	NOTE: when decompressed. After upstream commit e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bb
+	NOTE: with xz_decomp is more prominently uncovered.
 CVE-2018-9250
 	RESERVED
 CVE-2018-9249



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